CONVOLVULUS DUARTINUS.

Ipomœa bona-nox, L. (styled "Convolvulus duartinus" by Mure).

Natural order , Convolvulaceæ.

Common name , Morning-glory.

Preparation , Tincture of the flowers (obtained by Mure from gardens in Rio Janeiro).

Authority.

Mure, Pathogénésie Brésilienne.

MIND

• Moral weakness (in two provers).
• Discouragement.
• Hypochondria.
• Reveries in the daytime.
• Mental languor.

HEAD

• Vertigo, with fainting.
• Dizziness (in three provers).
• Pain all over the head, especially on the median line.
• Pain in the whole head, from morning till 5 o'clock in the evening. [10.]
• Two small spots on the forehead, disappearing in a few minutes.
• Heaviness and dizziness in the frontal region, two days in succession.
• Burning in the frontal region, ceasing after a cold bath.
• Pain in the frontal region.
• Pain in the frontal region, with heat at the root of the nose (in three provers).
• Pressure at the frontal region.
• Pain in the temples.
• Pain in the left temporal region, corresponding to the eye.
• Acute pain in the morning, in the left temporal region, two days in succession (in two provers).
• Slight pain at the vertex. [20.]
• Violent pain at the vertex, in the morning.
• Violent pain at the vertex, in the evening.
• Headache, sometimes in the vertex, sometimes in the occiput.
• Headache on the left side.

EYE

• Inflammation of the left eye.

FACE

• Dark redness of the face.
• Red spot on the right cheek when rising from bed; it disappears in the course of the day.
• Pain in the right cheek.

MOUTH

• Toothache.
• Swelling of the gums. [30.]
• The tongue feels swollen.
• Spitting of mucus.
• Bad taste in the mouth.

THROAT

• Slight pain on each side of the thyroid cartilage.
• Sore throat for more than eight days.
• Slight heat in the upper part of the œsophagus.
• Heat and dryness at the anterior and superior part of the œsophagus (in three provers).

STOMACH

• Appetite on getting up in the morning (in two provers).
• Pain in the stomach for three days.
• Diminished appetite.

ABDOMEN. [40.]

• Pain in the abdomen with internal heat.
• Violent colic, with drawing (in two provers).

STOOL

• Constipation the first days (in eight provers).

URINARY ORGANS

• Red urine.
• Yellow sediment in the urine.

CHEST

• Deepseated pain under the right breast.

NECK AND BACK

• Small red spot on the right side of the neck.
• Numbness in the left scapular region.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Numbness of both arms.
• Numbness of the arm, worse when hanging down. [50.]
• Pain at the left shoulder.
• Deepseated pain in the left forearm.
• Pain in the left wrist-joint.
• Numbness of the right index and middle fingers.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Paralytic pain of the legs and thighs for several days.
• Pain in the right knee.
• Deepseated pain, first in the left, then in the right thigh.
• Lancinating pain in right knee.
• Numbness of left leg and heel.
• Pain at the forepart of the left leg, for four days. [60.]
• Deepseated pain in the calves.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

• Drowsiness in daytime (in two provers).
• Drowsiness in the evening (in three provers).
• Dreams about quarrelling.
• Dreams about dead persons, and the falling out of his front teeth.
• Dreams of flying along a lighted street; appearance of a ghost; wakes with a start.

FEVER

• Shivering several times in the course of the day.
• Heat and burning of the skin all over, with prickings like the bites of ants.
• Profuse sweat in bed, several nights in succession.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), Pain in temporal region; pain at vertex; when rising from bed, spot on cheek.
• ( Night ), In bed, profuse sweat.
• ( When lying down ), Numbness in arm.
• Amelioration.
• ( Morning ), On getting up, appetite.
• ( After cold bath ), Burning in frontal region ceases.